French Resistance

civil war broke out. King Henry V of England was eager to take advantage of in order to suit his own agenda and thus attacked. Prince Charles VII (AKA the Dauphin) was disinherited and exiled after his father’s death before becoming the focus of the resistance. Although Joan was just a peasant girl, she left a lasting impression in the history books because throughout these rough times she helped save Orléans, reclaimed Reims, and ended up being canonized as a saint. Joan’s reputation first began to

which paved the way for a 132-year French occupation. In 1830, the French monarchy, seeking to distract its discontented subjects, decided to invade Algeria. Abd al-Qadir, a devout Sufi religious and political leader, became a symbol of Algerian independence, as he organized an effective resistance that lasted until 1847. Under French rule, local Algerian economies were disrupted, and Islamic institutions, schools, and charitable foundations were dismantled by the French government as part of a “civilizing”

nature of the revolution fell behind the main two leaders of the resistance who were Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean Jacques Dessalines. Although the very first major slave rebellion in the North began in 1791 with the Voodoo ceremony at Bois Caïman, which L’Ouverture did not partake in. L’Ouverture, who became a great military leader after attaining freedom from slavery, in 1791 he got involved with the negotiations between the French Governor ad rebel leaders to at least create better conditions for

bloods and souls. Before the Vietnam War begins, Vietnam is of one French’s colony in Southeast Asian along with Laos and Cambodia in the late 1800’s, which collectively called the Indo-China. When the French took over Vietnam, they started to change the Vietnamese’s economy by minimizing the local resistance under the “divide and strategy” rule to prevent the Vietnamese unity by creating caste system between local landlords and rice farmers. Under this rule, the landlord’s job is to take over all the

with Mexico and withdrew, but France, ruled by Napoleon III (1808-1873), decided to use the opportunity to carve a dependent empire out of Mexican territory. Late in 1861, a well-armed French fleet stormed Veracruz, landed a large French force and drove President Juárez and his government into retreat. 6,000 French troops under General Charles Latrille de Lorencez (1814-1892) sent 6,000 troops out to attack Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico.

France passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a document that would become the cornerstone of the French Revolution. Influenced heavily by the American Revolution and the Enlightenment, the ideas seen in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen can be traced to documents from these time period, outlining “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression” as the basic rights of men. All four of these ideas can then be broken down into the individual rights

The French Revolution is the representative people’s revolution. It changed the premodern social system and established the modern bourgeois society. In 1787, the resistance against royal power started and from 1799 it became full-scale revolution which involved all society group. Because of this revolution, the politic system was changed from absolute monarchism to constitutional royal rule to republican system. In 18century, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, which propose the people liberation

1894, and the city of Gao in 1898. The French army crushed all African resistance. France wanted to install a system of direct rule. The British, on the other hand, used indirect rule to keep their colonies. France established a Governor-General in French West Africa. He was based in Senegal, which borders Mali to the East. The Governor-General in Dakar, which is the capital of Senegal, was to take orders and to report to the Minister of Colonies and the French Government. A very small amount of Africans

However, ‘theory’ is the key word here, as this was not true in practice. As Johnson highlights, there were no legal provisions at any point during the French Revolution to guarantee these rights. Although the estates system was abolished, the class system remained, and there continued to be huge wealth disparity in France. As the October Days in the same year highlighted, urban workers continued to struggle to afford bread. The Declaration only guaranteed equality of rights. Although this is significant

At the center of both the American and French revolution were equality and liberty. The French and Americans both wanted freedom from the monarchy. America wanted freedom from the excessive taxes and laws that Great Britain had forced on them. The French wanted to overthrow the monarchy and create a government where the people had more say in what happened. The American Revolution began after parliament passed the Stamp act of 1765 which taxed objects such as newspapers and pamphlets. Colonists hated